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Old 06-25-2012, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by januarybabe View Post
I started with gabapentin and it worked right away. This was two years ago. My pain has gotten worse and more widespread. I am now on 2700 mg of gaba and started with 300 mg per day. I probably did build up a tolerance to GABA. I am now on Tramadol about 75 to 100 mg per day. I am fairly careful as it has caused nausea and vomiting. I split my 50 mg pills in half. Tramadol has also seemed to work well. It seems like it makes the GABA work better.

I don't consider tolerance the worst thing. I feel the pain relief is worth it. Hopefully, if it happens I can switch to another drug.
I was wondering about the combination of neurontin and tramadol and whether that might work too, but I had trouble holding out for the neurontin to work. I only took it a couple of weeks and it hadn't started working yet, if it was going to work at all, so I went with the tramadol. I appreciate all of this input, have had many dark days wondering if things were going to improve at all.
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